Carter, raised the possibility of a boycott in January 1980 ... U.S. men to win the Olympic marathon, a feat that would have made him a commercial superstar. But the United States didn’t ...

sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet invasion of ...

SOCHI, Nov. 7. /TASS/. George H. W. Bush in a private conversation called it a huge mistake for the United States to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the ...

This is not the first time the US has used the Olympic Games to register objections to a host country's policies. American athletes boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow under pressure from ...

By ARTHUR VIDRO One seldom-used weapon in a consumer’s arsenal is the boycott. A boycott is the abstaining from buying or using a particular product, or from conducting business with a particular ...